Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said this week that former President Joe Biden's last-minute pardons for several members of his family was a "terrible" decision that "put a cloud" over his family.
"This is the difference," McCarthy said in an interview with NBC's "Today" show on Monday.
"This president told the American public, while he was campaigning for office, 'If I'm elected president, I will pardon these people.' Compare this to Joe Biden, who said he would never pardon his son, who now, on the very last day in the last 30 minutes, pardons his entire family."
McCarthy later noted that President Donald Trump "told the American public ahead of time" that he would pardon those charged in the Capitol riot and said the voters "put that into consideration whether they vote for him for president, so he's just keeping a campaign promise."
He added that Biden should "think about what everybody else had gone through. Why pardon your family? It makes no sense to me."
McCarthy said that the pardons "put a cloud over" Biden's family and made it look like they "did something wrong."
He said Biden "must know something that other people do not, and what? Why do you wait until 30 minutes before? Why did you tell the American public you would never pardon your son, and you do it now?"
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